Thomas Schomerus (University Professor Dr. iur. Dr. h.c., *1957), studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Göttingen from 1976 – 1981. 1988, he started his career as a civil servant for the City of Hamburg. Since 1996 he has been working as professor of public law, in particular energy and environmental law, at the Sustainability Faculty of Leuphana University Lüneburg. Schomerus has worked intensively on cooperation with foreign universities and institutions. His broad international network covers many countries, ranging from USA, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Georgia and other European countries to Mongolia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. 2014 – 2021, he worked as part-time Judge (Richter im 2. Hauptamt) at the Higher Administrative Court of Lower Saxony in Lüneburg. In 2021, he was elected as a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC), making Genva/Switzerland his second workplace. 2016, the Humboldt Foundation appointed him as a member of the selection committee for Prospective Leaders in Climate Protection and climate-related Resource Conservation. Schomerus has published over 300 books and articles on various subjects of environmental and energy law, and he has worked on numerous research projects.
